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by pavanlimo 14y ago
Most of the news sites (like TOI, CNNIBN etc), most of the ecommerce sites(like saholic, defunct letsbuy, infibeam, homeshop18 etc). And those examples are fairly successful enterprises despite having bad usability. Most other startups with
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by pavanlimo 14y ago
I'm talking about startups born and brought up and marketed in India. Except a handful like Redbus, Flipkart and Cleartrip, most others are not impressive. Even sites like Redbus/FK were not great when they went live for the first time. Ove
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by pavanlimo 14y ago
Just goes on to strengthen the belief that Indians do not focus enough on usability.
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Cliched but good writeup: Things to know before you shift completely to Linux(quora.com)
1 points by pavanlimo 14y ago|1 comments
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by pavanlimo 14y ago
I agree TC dishes a lot of rubbish of late. But at the same, the author looks to me like a headline hogger. I'm not really convinced by his reasoning.
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by pavanlimo 14y ago
I cannot agree more!
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by pavanlimo 14y ago
As a matter of fact, not everything has to be about mainstream audience, it depends on the product. http://scholar.google.co.in is not meant to be a mainstream product. Where as http://google.com/search is a mainstream product. And DDG
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by pavanlimo 14y ago
Agreed. But my reply will be a classic "try explaining that to my mum".
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by pavanlimo 14y ago
Well in fact, I think the name has a ring to it. The logo too complements it well. I guess what's not working for DDG is that it's a me-too product. It boils down to this: What does DDG have that Google doesn't?. Me-too products can perform
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Why does Superman wear red underwear over his costume?(quora.com)
5 points by pavanlimo 14y ago|0 comments
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Google+ Ripples(searchenginejournal.com)
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Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”(anjaligupta.com)
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A Man, a Car and his Startup(quora.com)
6 points by pavanlimo 14y ago|0 comments
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Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby(datagenetics.com)
130 points by pavanlimo 14y ago|62 comments
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by pavanlimo 14y ago
Anonymous' story is fantastic fun to follow. This book 'We Are Anonymous' by Parmy Olson feels like the good fiction book, though it's a non-fiction.
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LulzSec Leader Betrays All of Anonymous(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by pavanlimo 14y ago|1 comments
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by pavanlimo 14y ago
It has already banned private radio broadcasters to broadcast news. For a while it had also blocked torrent sites.
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Twitter cedes to government demands, blocks fake parody accounts in India(thenextweb.com)
4 points by pavanlimo 14y ago|3 comments